Hey, everyone, I'm Jen Hatmaker, host of the For the Love podcast. Every week, I'm joined by my dear

friend Amy, and we dive into the good stuff. So it's real stories, honest conversation,

super inspiring guests who help us make sense of life and love and faith and just this whole

messy middle. We talk about career pivots. We talk about parenting,

teens and young adults, dating again, hello, and just all the ways we're still becoming. We

laugh, we sometimes cry, we definitely learn, and we certainly don't take ourselves too seriously.

So whether you are chasing purpose or you're rebuilding or maybe just

trying to keep your plans alive, there is a seat for you at our table. New episodes drop every

week. So hit subscribe and come hang out with us on For the Love.

New Orleans has always been America's most gothic city. The rot-iron balconies, the jazz funerals, the sense of humid decay.

But it wasn't until the 1990s that Americans fully embraced the goth aesthetic. It was the decade of Tim Burton and Marilyn Manson.

The film Interview with a Vampire, based on the Anne Rice novel,

redefined vampires as beautiful, brooding outsiders.

Wicca, Tarot, and Paganism were on the rise.

For many, New Orleans, specifically its above-ground cemeteries,

became a kind of pilgrimage site, a place to act out their own Gothic fantasies.

No one was more aware of this trend than New Orleans police officer Eric Morton.

I mean, did they call it the cemetery beat?

They did. They basically, they called us the cemetery police, you know?

So here comes the cemetery police.

In the mid-90s, an outbreak of misbehavior in New Orleans cemeteries caused the NOPD

to create its own cemetery unit. Eric Morton was its first member.

...